Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

29jul2006

The Development of the C Language, classic paper by Dennis M. Ritchie and a must-read.

Does Rails Scale Down?, “Rails is not great for small projects. There I said it.”

IMG_0571 by otzberg

XPlanner is a project planning and tracking tool for eXtreme Programming (XP) teams. Seems to be worth a try.

And perfect blue, what are you gonna do
Until it rains, don’t watch for storms
Don’t count your casualties until there’s a war
— Dead Moon, Until It Rains

Regional Ruby Conference grants from Ruby Central, David A. Black proclaims. “Ruby users groups can get grants of up to $1500 for expenses connected with putting on a regional conference.”

The architecture of spam, “The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures.”

Seal Silo, The Marine Mammal Center (MMC) in Sausalito, California, treats elephant seals injured by “shark bites, gunshot wounds, and untenable toxins in their liquid habitat.”, cute.

Calla Lilies and Clouds by nomm de photo

There’s a red light on the hill
And a bridge out going down
There’s a city limits marker
Of an unfamiliar town
With my head slightly bent
I can see it in the light
Unknown passage
Cuttin’ like a knife through the night
— Dead Moon, Unknown Passage

Survey says Prototype is the most used Ajax toolkit/framework, by Hari K. Gottipati. Deservedly, I’d say.

SOA in a Nutshell, slides by Russ Miles. Non-bullshit slides for technical people. Beware of UML, though.